PA:PER Journal – Practice as Research - Call For Paper
Melina Scialom
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to inform you that Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts journal PA:PER (Performing Arts: Practice, Education and Research) is accepting submissions for our second issue Intersections which will be published next year.
This second issue looks at “intersections” within/beyond performing arts disciplines and asks how practitioners and scholars explore and experiment with ideas and frameworks of intersections within their practice, teaching, and research. Cambridge Dictionary defines intersection[s] as “a point where two things come together and have an [affect] on each other”. It further explains that if two things intersect, they are connected and influence each other, usually by having some of the same parts, features, etc., while the term “intersectionality” was coined in 1989 by Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw to describe how race, class, gender, and other individual characteristics intersect with one another and overlap. As a historic intersection between “East” and “West”, Hong Kong provides a point of reference to the encounters of/with cross-ing(s) and meet-ing(s) of multiplicities of cultures that simultaneously interact and overlap. But what are the perimeters of encounters and how do these spaces of encounters occur and are being addressed within performing arts disciplines?
There is a long history of intersections within and at the edges of the practices of the performing arts, and artists have explored intersections as spaces of in-betweenness, the liminal, from shamanistic ritual performances to Wagnerian gesamtkunstwerk to contemporary cyborgean multimedia VR. These loci for exploration and cross-fertilisation have spurred changes both within and outside of the performing arts and simultaneously, provided spaces for understanding how these intersections converge and impact individuals and groups.
This issue aims to offer a broader practical, aesthetic, historical, and theoretical outlet to those interested in recent developments in performing arts cross-ing(s) national and disciplinary boundaries. We invite submissions that respond to thinking, doing, and writing around the theme of “intersections”, reflecting on practices, research, performing arts education, practices of dramaturgy, interdisciplinarity, transcultural and intersectional approaches, and digitalisation of communication in performing arts.
Paper Submission Deadline
15th August 2022
Below are the weblinks to the call and submission process:
- Call for Paper official web link: https://hkapa.edu/about/support-services/par
- PA:PER Journal – Intersection: Call for Paper Information: https://hkapa.edu/file/upload/55051/CALL%20FOR%20PAPER%20-%20ISSUE%2002.pdf
- Paper Submission web link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScc_xQa4TA7MvzJ4agqoDY8hiKwgYXSAR8k2uXdiXF346Bzsg/viewform?usp=sf_link
- For the inaugural issue of PA:PER Journal Issue 01, please find the DOI of the journal: https://doi.org/10.29877/PA_PER
If further information is required, please do not hesitate forward your enquiries to p...@hkapa.edu with the subject heading “PA:PER Journal - Intersections”.
We look forward to receiving your papers soon.
Best regards,
PAR Unit
Melina Scialom
Lecturer in Performing Arts Research